The Rabbi's Cat, part 2

I want to use this blog to discuss The Rabbi’s cat once more, as it is a wealth of information on the human side of Jewish culture. This time thought I want to talk about it as an extended metaphor, for both Jewish myth, and Jewish faith.
Instances of allegory permeate The Rabbi’s Cat on almost every page. There is the symbolism as the parrot as the forbidden fruit, because when the cat eats him he gains the ability to speak and starts having nightmares, when his dreams use to be simple. This turns interestingly though, rather than this knowledge making him shameful and repentant. He continues the same as he did before he ate the bird. It seems to say that either we screwed up by repenting or the cat is truly the one in the wrong, but if the cat is in the wrong why is he shown to be cleverer than the rabbi’s rabbi. Therefore it is more likely that the cat shows us the way we ought to have gone, that the Greek tradition of embracing humanity was the proper way, rather than to hide the more bestial side of the human experience in the darkest recesses of society. This is shown again with the student of the rabbi who has to hide the fact that he goes to a whore house rather than embrace sexual experience in the open, not that they ought to have sex outside in the street more that it shouldn’t be something to repress and keep hidden. The metaphor is continued in the loss of the cat’s speech. This is more of an extension of religious belief the cat wants a miracle so he invokes the name of God, not something to be taken lightly, and his speech is removed as a result, this in a way reminds me of the story of Zachariah who had a vision from God and lost his power of speech until his son was born. Which the reason for speech loss is different there are multiple instances in the Torah where things happen to people because of contact with God, like Moses’ looking older when he came down off the mountain. It’s a trade the cat sacrifices his ability to speak so that his master can keep his job. It seems like a lot of God’s dealing on earth involves a trade of some kind with humanity, which seems silly if God is omnipotent why does he need humanity to do anything?
The cat seems to be a human being which then goes through true religious experience and yet it does not change him. I wish I could say I knew what the author was trying to say through this, but it seems ambiguous at best and vague at worst. To take a stab would be that the author is almost saying the religion is just a comfort tool, if it does not make you enjoy life more than do not do it. That seems to be the closing message of the graphic novel , religious practice and experience don’t have to mean anything, and often don’t mean anything.